Kidnapped Dragons

clothes with its teeth.

Uuuwoong auunauuunn wooong…

“Leave.”

In any case, he smacked it on the butt and pushed it outside leaving behind only Yu Jitae and Myu inside the isolation room.

He stood in front of the sleeping black-haired woman.

Living through the daily lives, he learned how to match himself to the surrounding mood and it was thanks to that that it wasn’t obvious.
In truth, he was a lot more serious right now than any other time ever since the start of the 7th iteration.

It will be a start to a very difficult journey because the target of Conceptualisation this time would be the protective authority made personally by the ‘Ancient One (EX)’ who had managed to become a transcendent authority. 

Things will be different compared to simple concepts like ‘comfort’ and ‘my dream’.
He was sure he wouldn’t fail but it would not be anything simple.

He had to be cautious.

From his experiments, he found a formula for [Magic Antigen] inside the Will of the Ancient One.
If he failed from this ‘Conceptualisation’ by landing a weak hit on the Will of the Ancient One, it would earn the power to reject the next Conceptualisation by gaining immunity.

Therefore, he only had one opportunity.

Yu Jitae used the authority.

[Conceptualisation (SS): Origin Fragment]

The authority inside Myu’s heart that was incomprehensible and thus unbreakable reacted to Yu Jitae’s authority. 

The world flipped and cut off Yu Jitae’s consciousness.

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He was at a foreign village by the time he reopened his eyes.

Like a countryside town of a foreign dimension, it had crudely built houses lining up with children running around the river.
A blue butterfly unhurriedly flapped its wings in front of him and landed on a flower blooming within the bush. 

For a split second, he felt doubt.

He was at a high altitude – it was a small village located in the middle of a mountain.
Standing still, he waited as his authority started floating messages after finishing its analysis.

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[Conceptualisation (SS)]
– Target: [Origin Fragment]
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This village.

It was the interpretation of Myu’s Origin Fragment analysed by Yu Jitae’s authority.
At the same time, because the mana attributes embedded within the Origin Fragment had affected the materialisation of this location, this was the world form that Myu was wishing for in her dreams.

The place appeared quite peaceful, unsuitably so for Myu of the black race, a cruel massacrer and a filthy garbage of the dimensions.

Soon, a crevice reaching several hundreds of metres in length appeared in the achromatic sky.
A horrendous sound like that of ripping flesh resonated all across as the eyelids opened, revealing the red eye within.

The red eye scanned across the world and fixed its gaze on Yu Jitae after discovering him.
The orange-coloured iris wriggled and set its focus on him.

The guy was staring at him.

<[Will of the Ancient One (SS)] finds the foreign being suspicious.>

There was no way that the great transcendent authority would ignore an infiltrator.

As he had expected, the countless blessings and abilities protecting him seeped out.
He wasn’t completely removing them and was just turning them off for a moment to escape from the doubtful gaze of the eye.

Up to here was the explanation on the background and his current situation and the last message was related to the destination.

In other words, it meant that the authority was changed to either people or furniture, and that the mana formulae that cannot be broken from outside can be physically crushed inside this place.

Yu Jitae lowered his gaze from the sky towards the village.
Hundreds of existences were walking around living an entangled life.
Everything revealed in front of him shaped like a human, animal or a piece of furniture were all ‘authorities’, ‘abilities’ or ‘blessings’.
This was the sheer number of magic that existed in the heart of an adult dragon.

Them talking to each other or sharing food appeared to be an interpretation of the process of giving and receiving mana organically within one body.

The ‘mirror images’ would all be acting according to their nature.

As if to prove that, a short boy with a large nose ran up to Yu Jitae from a distance.
He waved his palm and carefully greeted him.

“Hello?”

“…Hello.”

“Who are you mister?”

Yu Jitae reached his hand out to the boy.
In return, the boy held his hand and smelled it.
A few seconds passed and Conceptualisation floated a message after identifying the boy’s identity.

The name of the boy appeared in his mind.
The large-nosed boy in front of him had the name of the blessing that allowed one to identify an existence through the sense of smell. 

“Hmm, it’s a familiar scent…”

Immediately the boy turned his body around with a flick and started running to the village – he was trying to relay Yu Jitae’s information to others.
Yu Jitae sneakily followed the child from behind.

What he had to do now was simple.
Firstly he had to find ‘Myu’ in this place.

To be exact, even though it would be a spitting image of Myu, it wasn’t Myu.
It was the mirror image representing Myu’s ‘personality’ that he had to find.

From now, Yu Jitae would have to give the inside of the Origin Fragment several stirs both large and small.
Some might get hurt or die in that process.
Although it was fine for other authorities and abilities to be damaged during that, Myu’s personality was something that had to stay unharmed, because a personality being injured was not much different from death.

Therefore, he had to find Myu’s personality and make it stay next to him.

Going into the village, he could see the town had suffered from some damage.
A few of the buildings had fallen apart and he could also spot a large beast that had bandages wrapped around its seemingly wounded head.

This too was something interpreted into something Yu Jitae could understand and that was why a modern bandaging system that was unsuited for an otherworldly countryside village like this was being used to heal the head of the large monster. 

Those symbolised the parts of the [Origin Fragment] that had been damaged from his experiment.

The experiment itself had been conducted under Myu’s permission and that was why the authorities, blessings and abilities weren’t really hostile to him despite seeing him.

They simply ignored him and looked away.

So where was Myu?

Throughout his life, he had used [Conceptualisation] multiple times and knew most of the areas that a personality would be located in.
They would usually be at the highest, fanciest and the most noble areas because an individual’s personality came before authorities and whatnot.

However, going through the village for several hours, scavenging through the probable buildings and visiting places filled with groups of mirror images did not let him find Myu’s personality.

In doubt, he headed to other areas.

Was the personality not being treasured in this place? Or did black dragons not have a personality in the first place?

He was lost because it was his first time using Conceptualisation on the heart of a ‘mutant dragon’.

After another hour, Yu Jitae coincidentally came across Myu’s personality at a place outside his expectation.

It was at a certain dumping ground behind the village.